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Alexandria County, Virginia, Free Negro Register, 1797-1861 (Paperback)
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Alexandria County, Virginia, Free Negro Register, 1797-1861 (Paperback)
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This volume contains abstracts of the registration records of free
blacks in Alexandria County, Virginia. Alexandria County was
created in 1801 when Virginia ceded part of Fairfax County to
create the District of Columbia. It comprised that portion of the
District of Columbia which lay on the west side of the Potomac
River, and was known as Alexandria County, District of Columbia.
Alexandria County remained a part of the District of Columbia until
the territory was returned to Virginia in the retrocession of 1846.
It then continued to exist as Alexandria County, Virginia, until
1920 when it was renamed Arlington County. The registration records
abstracted here were originally created in response to a Virginia
law of 1793 which required all free blacks to register with the
town or county clerk, and get a freedom certificate to carry with
them at all times as ready proof of their free status. In order to
get a freedom certificate, the blacks had to produce acceptable
evidence of their freedom. A black person could be free by virtue
of being the child of a free mother, by manumission under a wide
variety of conditions (such as at the owner's death per the terms
of the owner's will), by self-purchase, etc. These abstracts
indicate the nature of the proof provided, be it references to
wills, deeds, and bills of sale, or affidavits by credible
witnesses. Thus these abstracts name a great many people in
addition to several thousand free blacks (many of the people named
being white), and they provide a great deal of data on
relationships, and some physical descriptions, all of which is of
great interest to genealogists and social historians.
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